For apprenticeship and independent training provider (ITP) managers
You answer for the claim, and for every apprentice reaching gateway.
Funding claim accuracy and end-point assessment (EPA) gateway readiness are your accountability, personally. Evidence built as you go beats evidence rebuilt at the deadline.
The scramble is real, and it's yours to own.
Compliance gets chased across systems. Evidence gets rebuilt in the last week of the claim window. Months later, a gap surfaces as clawback, on a claim the work already earned.
- A clawback lands months after the claim was filed, on work that was genuinely done.
- Late-surfacing needs threaten timely achievement, and the funding tied to it.
- End-point assessment evidence has to be consistent for every apprentice, not dependent on which tutor happened to notice.
- A digital record can show that support happened. It can't show it started from an actual assessed need, which is what a claim needs to survive scrutiny.
Built for what you're accountable for
Built for funding claim accuracy and EPA gateway readiness, not a generic feature tour.
Evidence that traces back to an actual assessed need beats a record that only shows something happened. Three ways this maps to your own accountability, not a platform tour.
Evidence as a by-product, not a separate exercise
Assessed need, matched adjustment, plan, delivery, monthly record: the golden thread. The Coverage Checker coaches every record against Intent, Implementation and Impact in real time, so it's ready when the claim window closes, not rebuilt against it, with no extra admin.
ExploreThe same evidence carries you to gateway
The reasonable adjustments in a support plan serve everyday delivery and the end-point assessment gateway alike, accepted by most awarding organisations for access arrangements. Needs found early carry all the way through.
ExploreConsistency without new headcount
Every apprentice's record is coached to the same standard, whichever tutor delivers it. Your Additional Learning Support (ALS) team is amplified, not replaced.
Customer story · Brighter Horizons
An ITP that lightened the workload and shrank its clawback risk
Brighter Horizons Training, an independent training provider, raised its evidence standard without adding to the day. In Chantelle's words as SENCo: "Workload-wise, it's much smoother. I no longer have to search for information. I can simply attach the learning support plan and Cognassist assessment, and everything is clear and ready to go."
“Where some learners might have been 25% behind after a couple of months, they're now only 15% behind. They're closing that gap every month, which reduces the risk of learners falling out of funding.”
- 100%learning support funding claim compliance
- 15%of apprentices receiving support funding, up from 5%
More proof
Apprenticeship providers evidencing claims and clearing the gateway
More apprenticeship and ITP providers, in their own words and their own results.
We utilise the Cognassist report for applications of additional time in end-point assessment settings, where required. To date we've used multiple awarding bodies for the various programmes our learner are completing and all have accepted the requests.
Cognassist has been a real game-changer for us. It gives us the certainty that we're doing the best we can to support our learners from day one and the ability to evidence the support consistently.
Where next
Go deeper: the claim, the gateway, or where the evidence is made
This page is your accountability. Each card is the mechanism.
See the funding claim evidence mechanism
The full claim-accuracy and clawback-risk mechanism: how a support record becomes a defensible funding position.
ExploreSee the EPA gateway evidence
How the Speed of Working result gives standardised evidence toward additional time at end-point assessment.
ExploreSee where the evidence is generated
The reasonable adjustments feature, tutor by tutor: assess, plan, do, review.
ExploreRead how other providers evidence support
Case studies from across apprenticeship and skills providers.
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FAQ
The questions this role actually asks
Does recording support well actually reduce our clawback risk?
Yes. Audit-grade evidence built as you deliver support is exactly the defensible basis a weak claim lacks. A record made to standard, every month, is what a claim can stand on.Does Cognassist claim funding for us, or guarantee a claim?
No. Cost recovery is your decision: eligibility, ILR (Individualised Learner Record) coding and your quality policy stay with you. Cognassist supplies the evidence: every record traces back to the assessed need, scored against Intent, Implementation and Impact, with the meeting type, date and hours logged as you go.Will this help our apprentices get through the EPA gateway?
Yes. Needs are identified early, and the same reasonable adjustments that serve everyday support also serve end-point assessment, accepted by most awarding organisations.Do awarding organisations accept this evidence for end-point assessment access arrangements?
Most do. You still run your own awarding organisation's access-arrangement process; Cognassist supplies the same record that traces back to the assessed need, the documented normal way of working behind it.Does this replace our ALS or specialist team?
No, it amplifies them. Routine support scales through the coaches you already have, and your specialists stay focused on the most complex cases.Is the cognitive assessment a diagnosis?
No. It's a signal for a tutor's judgement, not a diagnosis, and it doesn't by itself establish disability under the Equality Act 2010.Who sees the leadership dashboard?
Admins. Insights is an admin-only view, so at Tutor-Manager level you'll need administrator scope to see it directly.
Evidence the claim, and the gateway, without the scramble.
Audit-grade evidence, built as you go.